Oral history interview conducted with Louise Reynolds on June 13, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Louise Reynolds was the first African American woman elected alderman in the city of Louisville. Ms. Reynolds discusses her work with the Republican Party,...

Oral history interview with Mrs. Vivian Clark Stanley conducted on August 5, 1985 by Janet Hodgson. She discusses her career as a social worker and her life with Frank Stanley, Sr., editor, manager, and publisher of the Louisville Defender. She...

Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...

Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...

Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...

Item consists of an open-top and open-bottom wooden box within a hardcover binding. / The box has 5 horizontal, rolling, wooden pins inserted through it, upon which are afixed 5 pieces of paper serving as pages. / The book was letterpress printed,...

The Honor Quilt was made by Edith C. Wendt, a resident of Lynnfield since 1955 and a member of the Lynnfield Housing Authority since its inception, whose privilege it was to have personally known Miss Katherine Wellman Ross, Scholar - Educator -...

"The Child-Woman is Gala, who appears here for the first time in Dali's work." (Caption); "Meanwhile, Dali had painted the first major work in which he alluded directly to the relationship with Gala that was partially to blame for his estrangement...

My name is Renate Herold and I am a German national living in Japan where I am teaching at a university, working as a journalist besides and doing research mainly on women-related issues. I am 31. / Since most of my time is spent on reading or...

I was born in Chicago on the last day of the year 1904. To begin with I do many crafts, including crocheting, knitting, tatting, macrame, dress making, needlepoint, needle-made lace, embroidery - silk and 'pulled thread' ceramics, etching, etc. I...

Born Salem, Massachusetts, May 2, 1947. Currently resides in Venice, California. / Looking back on my childhood, my happiest memories of making art are of “pasting colored bits together.” These feelings guide me in making art today. Color drives...